Shoah

Shoah (1985)

  • 100% of critics liked it
    (23 reviews)

  • 96% of users liked it
    (984 ratings)

Shoah is an astonishing film on a number of levels, starting with its own existence -- a documentary on a subject so horrendous, and horrific, that few potential filmgoers really want to think much about it, or the events related within. But Jewish-French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann took the plunge,… More

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Unrated,
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Genres
Documentary, Art House & International, Special Interest
In Theaters
Nov 1, 1985 Wide
IFC Films

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Brody, New Yorker

    [It] has transcended the cinema to become a primary record of the extermination of European Jews during the Second World War.

  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe

    Why revisit "Shoah'' 25 years after it was first released? Because it matters more a quarter century on, just as it will matter even more in a hundred years, and 200, and - if it and we survive - a thousand.

  • Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

    the film's achievement is to show there are stories worth hearing, and ravaged, resilient faces that reward our scrutiny. The horror, the gallows humor, the shame and the heroism, the lessons of this holocaust -- and all others--have not been exhausted.

  • Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

    At a time when the few remaining witnesses to the Holocaust are passing away, Shoah more than ever stands as a necessary experience.

  • David Fear, Time Out New York

    Lanzmann slowly, cumulatively colors in a vast canvas on mass murder.

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